I have been predicting since ~2018 that the so-called "competent fascist" after Trump was going to come from the Democrat party. Elissa Slotkin may not be that person, but her rhetoric over the last couple months has kept me confident in that prediction.
In contrast: I imagine the lawyer was having a great time billing for this.
I been keeping this one in my back pocket for years :smuglord:
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E) also, underrated subtle detail is the ex-husband representing himself vs the ex-wife who hired a lawyer for the "divvying up the stuffies" civil case
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it's quite clear the battle droids are more or less fully sentient.
It's explicitly stated that the B1 battle droids in Phantom Menace do not have independent thought, a feature omitted as a cost-cutting measure; hence the need for the massive control ships and yellow-painted commander units (which do have the capability for independent thought, so I guess as far as they go I agree with you.) The hubris behind this mistake is one of the major themes of the film.
but they show individuality at multiple points in the film.
This is a fine counter-argument, I 90% chalk that up to the goofy bullshit strewn around the movie (like Jarjar stepping in animal shit) and maybe 10% chalk it up to the concept in Star Wars that droids will develop sentience through accumulated experience if they don't get regularly mind-wiped; which is another horrific concept in the convo about droid person-hood.
I only disagree with you on the specifics of the Phantom Menace because from what I understand the average non-commander B1 unit in that movie does not have the physical hardware to perform independent thought. This is textually not the case in the subsequent prequels because the conditions change. Otherwise I wholeheartedly agree that looking at The Clone Wars (the in-universe event) through the lens of droid person-hood (and by extension, Clone person-hood) really fucks up the surface level narrative in a good way.
At the end of the day though Star Wars is full of holes, it's not worth arguing this in-depth about anything involved with it tbh; so your read is just as valid.
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Eh not so much Phantom Menace, because all those droids are explained to be and shown as cheap, unsophisticated, and expendable models that are remotely controlled en masse from enormous orbital command ships.
In The Clone Wars/RotS, however, there is like no practical difference between the Clone Army and the Droid Army. Think of the juxtaposition of the cloning facilities in the first half vs the droid factory in the second half. It's just a massive factionalist split between Corporatist fascists and Neoliberal fascists, a grinding war of attrition at the cost of trillions of de-personed yet still sentient beings.
He also admitted to not believing germ theory while hosting FOX during Covid.
There is a technique or art to easing into it. I find it very easy to talk about"lefty" stuff if you know what buzzwords to avoid, or alternatively, to abuse.
Come share some music that you listen to in brain-empty mode while you feel listless and despondent.
I Iike to listen to the Stellaris OST when in 
mode
Secrets for those who misbehave
Also my go-to tripping album is Crack the Skye by Mastadon but it's not as light fare as the OST
Gork: Answer is unklear, best be askin' Mork
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Hard agree. Should have been Nanook.